Jackie Raynal
Date of birth: 1940-10-20
Place of birth: Poilhes, France
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Jacqueline Raynal, Jacquie Raynal
Biography
Jacky Raynal is French directress, actress and film editor. She's born in 1940 near Montpellier. The film maker has a diploma in Linguistics. In the early 60's, already a photographer, young Jacky Raynal starts working in the field of cinema. She's assistent film editor for the documentarys of G. Patriss and F. Vienne. After that, she edits the first films of E. Rohmer. In 1965 J. Raynal gets the license of senior film editor for feature films in CNC (National Cinema Center). Now she's working with the film directors of the New Wave. She edits all of the skecthes of Six in Paris, directed by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol. Jacky Raynal continues to work in editing till the end of 70's. In 1968, with S. Boissonas and O. Mosset, she's the founder of the Zanzibar group. She works with Philippe Garrel, Serge Bard, Daniel Pommereulle, Alain Jouffroy and Patrick Deval. J. Raynal shoots her first feature film Two Times in Barcelona. In 1972, the movie wins the Grand Prix in the Festival of Hyères/Toulon. At that time she's already living in New York. There, between 1975 and 1992, she's responsible for the programs of Carnegie Hall Cinema and Bleeker Street Cinema. She shows there numerous independent international films. Her job in New York is appreciated by F. Truffaut (he compares it with the French Cinematheque) and awarded twice by the Village Voice in 1981 and 1991. J. Raynal directs New York Story (Grand Prix in Melbourne) and Hotel New York. In the same time, she plays in several movies, organises numerous international cinema festivals, like Colombian Film Festival, Israel Film Festival or Avignon Film Festival. From 1973 to 1986, with Sid Geffen, they're publishing the independent international cinema review 1000 Eyes Magazine. From 2000, Jacky Raynal directs numerous documentarys, like Notes on Jonas Mekas (2000) or Eric Rohmer, the Film Maker (2010). In 2010, Jacky Raynal is rewarded for her work in arts the Légion d'Honneur (Knight in the Order Arts and Letters).
Movie Credits
The black bath
2021-10-16
In a black bath, Jackie Raynal introduce her film Deux Fois to Metrograph in NYC.
On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan
2015-01-01
Documentary on director Jean-Denis Bonan.
Acéphale
1968-10-07
An experimental arrangement of austerely executed but intensely hallucinatory episodes that build in
Freak Orlando
1981-11-06
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a
The Man Who Envied Women
1985-08-01
A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existen
A Woman Kills
1968-05-01
Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène
Eyes Find Eyes
2011-06-08
Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhe
Hotel New York
1984-03-15
A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show
Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
1981-04-09
Bonjour Tristesse
1958-01-15
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, b
The Big Departure
1972-11-15
This is the only feature directed by the famed French painter and sculptor Martial Raysse. In keepin
Two Rémi, Two
2015-08-12
Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the
Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice
2007-01-22
30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpic
Deux fois
1968-12-20
Raynal stars in this experimental film, her first as a director; she had previously worked for sever
Naughty Boys
1984-09-07
An ode to musicals past. Handsome men spend their time in a beautiful manor.
Welcome to New York
2014-08-07
Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls
Trap
1970-03-11
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a
La Collectionneuse
1967-03-02
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the R
New York Story
1980-12-08
Autobiographical film about Loulou (Jackie Raynal) who seeks a job as an editor on Broadway, shares
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest
Camembert Martial Extra-doux
1969-01-01
Jupiter
1971-03-05
La Fille oblique
2020-06-20
A storm breaks out in a high mountain village. Thirty-year-old Maude then discovers a mysterious bir
Felix in Wonderland
2019-08-08
Fall into the world of Felix Kubin's experimentation and creation of music sound and his mastering o
La cigarette
2011-01-01
A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer’s projections of the stories and biographies
Cinématon XII
1981-11-07
Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Parisian Life
2020-04-28
She had been a director. He had been a film critic. Lockdowned in their flat, rue des chaufourniers,
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016-05-29
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally air
How to Fold a Green Screen
Small performance with Jackie Raynal and Marie Losier. Simply set up by Marie in an empty New York g
L'homme qui part
2020-06-20
The man who leaves prepares his departure.
Pierre Clémenti, l'absolue liberté
2013-01-21
Marc'O, Philippe Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jackie Raynal and others retrace the life and work of actor, f